Haiku
Amazing, there’s a society for everything isn’t there. The Haiku Society of America has the winners of it’s annual haiku contest since 1976 posted. It’s surprising to see websites with a history. There are, of course, encyclopedias online that cover content over a huge span of years; but websites that post content gathered by an organization exisiting before the 90s still surprises a person. A leader of the internet design and standards community, Jeffrey Zeldman, has been running his site for sometime: “Web design information and entertainment since 1995”. 1995 being quite old in internet years, but still not particularly aged. After all, many of us drive cars older than that. The depth of content in small personal sites (that are maintained) will be interesting as decades start to pass. Additionally, the usefulness of databases and the languages used to extract content from them may be determined largely by their ability to stand the test of time, or at least their friendliness towards forward-compatibility. Finally, although content from the past can be interesting, nobody wishes to read about teen angst from some 10-year-old blog. Clean up when you are done with your website(s)! Oh, and do visit the Haiku website, bet you didn’t click it before!